Hello out there in
magic land its time for another wonderful episode
of Jasonís Deck Garage. Well its been another week
and this week we will be looking at a deck that
will be showing up a lot on the magic scene in the
months to come. The deck fix is an affinity deck
that is four cards short of being a build of the
Arcbound Ravager deck that made its impact felt
last week at the German Regionals Tournaments. As
usual I have included some additional builds of
the deck I am featuring and hope that you can make
use of them. Those of you that are regulars to my
deck garage article may have noticed that last
week I skipped out on the usual rant. Well this
week I have a perfect target for my rant and its
all about the wonderful card called Skullclamp. So
I say unto you that have come for the deck fix and
the free deck lists, if you want to read the fix
skip the next paragraph, so that you donít have to
here me rant. For those of you that are wanting to
have me take a look at your deck list or answer
you magic questions email me at
pojojason@hotmail.com
and I will try to get back with you this week. I
managed to get over 90% of the emails answered so
feel free to talk with me.

I pose this question
to you. What is the most used card in Darksteel?
If you answered anything but Skullclamp then I
hate to wake you up from you ever so pleasant
dream. Yes itís a world gone mad where we got what
we wanted but didnít know better. We got an
artifact that was playable, tournament viable, and
in a rarity slot to where everyone could get it.
People complained that we couldnít get a good
artifact and that the days of power cards were
gone but here we are. German regionals was the
first major Standard Constructed tournament that
we got to see what the meta game would look like
and in the top eight there were 20 copies of
Skullclamp. Now I donít have personal access to
the all the deck list from Germany but I do dare
to guess that the number of Skullclamps there
probably out numbered at least on basic land type.
Skullclamp is a good card and is actually border
line great. I consider it one of the most likely
cards for a banning in a long time. So some of you
send me some of your opinions on what you think
about Skullclamp should it be banned? Does it have
too much hype? Am I full of poop? Send me you
thought at

The deck that I received was from reader Pierce
Kuhnell and itís an affinity deck that is very
close to being a build of what we call Ravager
Affinity. The Arcbound Ravager deck or Ravager
Affinity as it is called works by using the
Affinity mechaninc to get out fast creatures and
the interaction of Disciple of the Vault with
Acrbound Ravager for additional kill. This deck is
really quick out of the gate and can easily allow
the player to dump his whole hand on to the board
as quick as turn two or three. I myself have been
playing this deck and have killed on turn three
and four when the hand allowed for it. itís a deck
that is able to also abuse the card from my rant
Skullclamp. You can build up card advantage by
equipping you artifact creatures and sacrificing
them to the Arcbound Ravager and thatís when the
deck can really start to get unfair. So here is
Pierces email and then the build that I supplied
for him.

I am trying to make an aggro affinity deck to
play in tournaments with as well as with my
friends. The main way to kill anyone is just by
sacrificing artifacts to disciples of the vault
and running people over with atogs.

Creatures:

3 Frogmite

3 Myr Enforcer

3 Atog

2 Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer

2 Ornithopter

4 Disciple of the Vault

Other:

4 Welding Jar

4 Thoughtcast

3 Scale of Chiss-Goria

3 Tooth of Chiss-Goria

4 Pyrite Spellbomb

2 Shrapnel Blast

4 Skull clamp

3 Chromatic Sphere

Land:

4 Vault of Whispers

4 Seat of the Synod

4 Great Furnace

4 Darksteel Citadel (would be glimmervoid if I
had them)

Sideboard:

2 Flashfires

2 Boil

4 Detonate

2 Bonesplitter

2 Broodstar

3 Electrostatic Bolt

This is the version that I would chose to build
from your deck list. Now I know that Pierce said
that he uses the atog to kill his opponent and the
Arcbound Ravager adds another way to kill his
opponent. I removed the Slobad the Goblin Tinkerer
so that more of the effective creature like
Frogmite and Myr Enforcer could be used in fours.
I removed the Scales to make room for the Arcbound
Ravager although the Scales of Chiss-Goria can be
good for combat tricks.

Jasonís Deck Garage version of Pierces deck

4 Frogmite

4 Myr Enforcer

4 Arcbound Ravager

2 Atog

2 Ornithopter

4 Disciple of the Vault

Other:

4 Welding Jar

4 Thoughtcast

3 Tooth of Chiss-Goria

4 Pyrite Spellbomb

2 Shrapnel Blast

4 Skull clamp

3 Chromatic Sphere

Land:

4 Vault of Whispers

4 Seat of the Synod

4 Great Furnace

2 Darksteel Citadel

2 Glimmervoid

The Sideboard changes were made with the idea
that if the deck was used for a tournament, it
would be better to have a few more answers for the
current metagame.

Sideboard:

3 Flashfires

3 Detonate

3 Shatter

4 Electrostatic Bolt

2 Furnace Dragon

Per the norm I have included a few more deck
list that are similar but different than my build.
They are here for your enjoyment and I believe
that it will be the deck to beat at this years
regionals. I hope that you enjoyed this weeks
article and look forward to receiving you emails
at

pojojason@hotmail.com
donít forget to send me you decklist and
questions. Next week I will hopefully be bringing
you a casual deck list and maybe even a few more
tournament decks form Germanys Regionals. Until
then may all you opening hands be keepers.